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Actifio Data Capture

Copyright 2011 ACTIFIO

Actifio Data Capture Methods


App-Consistent Snapshot
with Change Tracking

SAN
NAS
DAS

Production Storage

Hypervisor
APIs

App APIs

DB
Copy Data

Actifio VDP
SAN Capture

A
FS

File System
Capture

Vendor independent
storage device

Data Capture 1: VMware


Method: VMware APIs
1. Take VMware Snapshot
vCenter

ESX(i)

Data
Transfer
Ethernet

- VMware Tools will quiesce


vCenter APIs

1. Query Changed Block Tracking


(CBT) to List Changed Blocks
1. Copy Incremental Changes

VM VM

- via Ethernet or
- via SAN
SAN
Storage

Data
Transfer
FC

Snapshot Dedup

2. Apply Changes, Actifio Snapshot

1. Delete VMware Snapshot

Data Capture 2: Application APIs


Method: Oracle or Microsoft APIs
App
Server

1. Mount Staging Disk on Server

App
APIs

- Mounted via FC or iSCSI


FC / iSCSI

1. Copy Incremental Changes


Snapshot Dedup

DAS
NAS / Fileserver
Storage Array

Oracle RMAN Image Copy + Incr Merge


Microsoft VSS + Actifio CBT Driver

1. Unmount Staging Disk on Server


2. Snapshot Staging Disk on Actifio

Data Capture 3: In-band FC


Method: Actifio Snapshots
Server

Initial Setup

Actifio
Connector

1. Original LUN Mapping


- Array to Server

1. Unmap LUN
FC Fabric

1. Map LUN from Array to Actifio


1. MAP LUN from Actifio to Server
- Array to Actifio to Server

LUN

Data Capture
Storage Array

Snapshot

Dedup

1. Quiesce Application
- Actifio Connector will Quiesce

1. Snapshot In-band LUN

Data Capture 4: File System Capture


Method: Actifio Connector
1. Mount Staging Disk on Server

Actifio
Connector

- Mounted via FC or iSCSI

Server

1. Snapshot Data

FC / iSCSI

- Actifio Connector will quiesce


Snapshot Dedup

DAS
NAS / Fileserver

1. Incrementally Update Staging Disk


from Snapshot

Storage Array

1. Unmount Staging Disk on Server

2. Snapshot Staging Disk on Actifio

Data Capture Summary


#

Method

Snapshot

VMware APIs

VMware Snapshot

VMware CBT

Block

VM

Copy +
Changes

Oracle APIs

Oracle RMAN

Oracle CBT

Block

DB Instance

Copy +
Changes

MSFT APIs

Microsoft VSS

Actifio CBT Driver

Block

DB Instance

Copy +
Changes

In-band FC

FC COW

Snapshot Comparison

Block

LUN(s)

Changes

File System

File System

File Comparison

File

File System

Copy +
Changes

Copyright 2011 ACTIFIO

Change Tracking

Change
Level

Granularity

Snapshot Pool

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